A medical expert, Dr. Lauretta
Orji, yesterday said that males who are not circumcised have 10 to 15 times
recurrence cases of urinary tract infection, prone to Human Immuno Virus (HIV)
and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Orji spoke during a one-day
Grassroots Civic Education Seminar with the theme, “Ending Female Genital
Mutilation, FGM, in this generation which held in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state.
According to her, while it was
proper to circumcise the male, which is recognized by medical practice, the
female circumcision constitutes the infringement of the woman’s sexual rights
and form of violence against her.
She said that, “A particular
belief in Uganda holds that the female clitoris is the remnant of the male’s
Pinal shaft which should, therefore, be removed mostly with the use of crude
and unhealthy methods.
The expert noted that the
perpetrators of FGM should realize that God created the female clitoris for
sexual satisfaction and its cutting would not stop a promiscuous woman from
being wayward.
“The perpetrators should be
mindful of a woman’s sexual well-being during marriage as the practice is a
form of gender inequality in a male-dominated world.
Also speaking at the event, a
lead consultant with Save Visions Africa, the seminar’s organizers, Dr Peter
Okereke warned that continued practice of FGM in Nigeria, violates the Child
Right Act passed into law in 2011.
“The bill banning FGM was signed
into law on May 29, 2015as the overall prevalence of FGM among girls and women
aged 15-49 years in Nigeria is 27 per cent.”
According to Dr. Okereke,
statistics show that 16 per cent of infant girl-children were cut under age of
one, 82 per cent cut before the age of five years and girls of 0-14 of age are
higher among those whose mothers have been circumcised.
“Traditionally, 87 per cent of
girls of age 0-14 and 80 per cent of women age of 15-49 were cut by a local
circumciser or traditional birth attendance, TBAs.”
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